Raycast only hitting at freakishly specific distance

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Godot Version

godot 4

Question

I’m working on an fps game and the raycast for my pistol is only registering at a very specific distance to the target

Here’s some print_debugs of the distance when the pistol registered a hit on an enemy:
8, Feet, Distance:0.53268575668335
At: res://Player_Controller/DosPistolasController.gd:64:_shootL()
9, Feet, Distance:0.53268575668335
At: res://Player_Controller/DosPistolasController.gd:64:_shootL()
10, Feet, Distance:0.53268575668335
At: res://Player_Controller/DosPistolasController.gd:64:_shootL()

note the distance to the target is identical for each despite several shots being taken from multiple ranges. it seems damage only registers from this exact distance. more specifically, I can wail on the enemy from anywhere on the map but it only registers if I’m that exact distance away. why?

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Here’s the method that handles the raycast:

func _shootL():
	animL.current_animation = "new_animation"
	Blast.play(0.0)
	Shot += 1

## this is the important bit here
	if rayL.get_collider():
		if rayL.get_collider().has_method("_take_damage"):
			rayL.get_collider()._take_damage(dmg, 1, self.global_position, 5)
			print_debug(Shot, ", ", rayL.get_collider().get_name(), ", Distance:", position.distance_to(rayL.get_collider().position))
3

never mind, I parented the raycast to the wrong object on accident. not sure why it had this particular effect, but oh well. as long as it works

4

actually no its still doing it it just changed slightly

5

turns out I had an invisible collider that I didn’t think would stop the pistol but it did